"There never was that agreement before and there never was that this summer," Rodgers said in the Times. "The contract was what it was. We want him to stay and with his contract running for two-and-a-half years, I am sure there will be something between now and the end of the season to keep him here.

"There will be a number of dependencies on that, but the most important thing is that the player is happy. I didn't sit in on the conversations, but as I understand it there is no agreement of any kind."

Asked if he will stay at Liverpool until the end of the season, following talk of renewed interest from Arsenal in January, Suarez said: "Yes, I am happy here and I will stay.

"The most important focus for me is to help Liverpool to get into the top four after being out of the Champions' League for a long time, and I believe I will help the team to get it."

After enduring a tricky start to his Manchester United career, perhaps it is fair that Marcos Rojo celebrated so boisterously as he watched his first professional club Estudiantes beat fierce rivals Gimnasia